Domestic Dispute 2.0

I’ve recently misfired a pretty hefty told-you-so while it was pointed right at my wife. It was dark, it went off in my hands, accidents happen, mistakes were made. Let’s not point any fingers here. Anyhow, she doesn’t want to have anything to do with me so here I am to entertain all of you, and then we can all pretend to care about each other in tiny little doses, thousands and thousands of times. Think of it as the long tail of poor domestic-relationship management practices.

I’m sure that we can all get through this difficult time together. Onward!

Warren Ellis, whose Nextwave and Planetary series’ are some absolutely fantastic comic-bookery has written a book called Crooked Little Vein. The first chapter of it is here, and it is absolutely mandatory reading.

As a promotion for the upcoming movie, a giant Homer Simpson has been painted next to an ancient pagan land ornament, which has apparently got some pagans quite upset. Those pagans can be pretty uptight that way! Without a doubt, though, the unambiguously for-the-win quote is this:

“We’ll be doing some rain magic to bring the rain and wash it away.” She added: “I’m amazed they got permission to do something so ridiculous. It’s an area of scientific interest.”

Translated from indignant-crazy-person to english that reads, roughly, “BBC 1, Pagans 0.” In this cosmic struggle of advertisers versus pagans, though, let us root for the underdogs: go, pagans.

I went on a while back about The Wizard Of Oz and Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon; It’s now on Youtube, of course.

Cheap transgression just feels… well, cheap. It’s like, “Hey, I know, I’ll have my guy rant about ORGANIZED RELIGION! And how stupid it is! And he’ll give people THE FINGER! And there’ll be pictures of TURDS! It’s going to be so edgy and awesome, everyone will be blown away by how cool it is!”